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In an unceasing succession of different scenarios, the detective's intervention triggers a series of inexplicable murders.
As always, Marlowe steps forward among the monsters and wreckage of a corrupted society with the pained awareness of the antihero, with the stern tenacity of the paladin of truth, and with the caustic humor of the "man of honor."
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Against the backdrop of a rich and corrupted California, teeming with the miserable waiting for their big break, Philiph Marlowe is unleashed on the trail of a missing husband. He encounters an ex-convict, recently released after eight years in prison, who hires him to find his woman, who has also disappeared. What unfolds is a tale with strong colors, seasoned with blackmail and violence, luxury, and a long string of murders. more
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It is considered by the Crime Writers' Association to be the second-best detective novel of all time.
The book is the first in the series featuring private detective Philip Marlowe. The title refers to death and is the final phrase of the work.
The eponymous The Big Sleep is a 1946 film directed by Howard Hawks and starring the duo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
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"Don Quixote is the wager of a genius, with two characters so complex and yet so free that they do not know until the end where they are headed, where their confused journey will take them, and above all the play of their relationships."
- Vittorio Bodini - more
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Vincenzo Cerami — Fantasmi | DeRank™: 0,00

“It’s a book that encourages you to leaf through the pages backward rather than forward. You don’t quickly flip through the pages to find out how it ends, but revisit those you’ve just read, because there isn’t just one story but many stories… Only at the end do you discover that there is one single story, with the rhythms of a sonata in four movements.”
- Umberto Eco - more
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Vincenzo Cerami is a storyteller, screenwriter, librettist, and playwright: who better than him to open the doors of the writer's creative workshop to readers and unveil its mechanisms, tricks, and devices?
In these pages, already a great success, the author explains the hidden laws that produce the naturalness of the narrative, the techniques for constructing convincing dialogues, and the effects that can be achieved by choosing to narrate in the first or third person, etc.
In addition to the already published chapters on how to write novels, short stories, and film scripts… (cit. ibs.it) more
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It is the novel written by Roberto Benigni and Vincenzo Cerami from the screenplay of the eponymous film, directed by Benigni, and released in theaters in 1991 just before the publication of the book. more
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The glass boy is Stefano, a high school student, who the lens of Cerami halts on the threshold of adulthood. He moves amidst the quagmires of conflicting sensations that continuously explode and cancel each other out. His fear of nothingness is similar, but in the opposite direction, to that experienced by Aschenbach in "Death in Venice," the book Stefano opens like a breviary during the lazy days of a summer holiday. He is dominated by an anxiety for the absolute, a frantic need to upend and erase what is pale and mediocre. more
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The novel tells the story of a government clerk who is nearing retirement. A year later, the eponymous film was made, directed by Mario Monicelli, featuring Alberto Sordi as the protagonist. more
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Anton P. Cechov — Zio Vanja | DeRank™: 0,00

"The main character of Uncle Vanya (1896) is not Uncle Vanya, but the Professor. The fictitious respectability, the awkwardness, the attire, and the pompous ceremonial give Serebrjakòv the character of a haughty clown. His first entrance can be considered an authentic clownish 'entrée'. In our eyes, he appears sometimes akin to one of the Fratellini, sometimes to the malevolent fatties of Chaplin's comedies. The game with the blanket, the medical vials, the pompous sermons, the 'have a new photograph taken' with which Maria Vasílievna takes her leave from him: many elements contribute to highlight the circus ridiculousness of this 'wise carp', this blustery fellow, whom I imagine as a huge donkey-headed man, adorned with a flourish of a lush, reddish top hat."
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List of stories:
- Boxes
- Anyone who has used this bed
- Intimacy
- Menudo
- Elephant
- Blackbird mess
- The assignment
In a commemorative speech held in November 1988, Tess Gallagher concluded with the words of a poem by Raymond:
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, despite everything?
Yes.
And what is it that you wanted?
To feel called beloved, to feel
loved on earth. more
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Raymond Carver — America oggi | DeRank™: 0,00

America today gathers the nine stories and the poetry of Raymond Carver transformed by Robert Altman in the film that won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1993.
A choral fresco made of solitudes that survive on the margins of the American dream.
Fragments of lives that burn and fade but somehow resist, still capable of infinite love.
A distillation of Carver’s writing in all its purity, able to reveal how extraordinary lies behind every existence. (quoted Einaudi) more
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Raymond Carver — Cattedrale | DeRank™: 0,00

How to describe a medieval cathedral to someone who cannot see?
It is in the answer to this seemingly unusual question that the heart of Carver’s latest collection lies: in the possibility of being surprised by the unpredictability of sharing and human connection.
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AC/DC | DeRank™: -0,75

AC/DC? Tough, solid rock, but never trivial or out of style! more
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If you need it, call forth a doubly unprecedented Carver: the youthful one from his early days...
and the posthumous one, featuring the stories he was working on just before he died, now a master of an unmistakable style.
The evolution of an author who made beauty visible with his stories...
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The subjects of the twenty-two stories in this first collection by Raymond Carver are already the same as always: men and women on the brink, or already beyond, perdition; unemployed individuals, alcoholics, people incapable of creating and maintaining true and solid emotional relationships.
But, mixed in with the disenchantment that Carver knows how to depict inalienations and lacks, there emerges here and there a more emotional, passionate streak, in some cases an erotic or comical detail. In a word, an affectionately "human" quality.
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What do we talk about when we talk about love?
We talk about a glass of gin that spills in a room where two tired couples are arguing.
We talk about old friends who, perhaps out of boredom, perhaps for another reason, unknowingly commit a terrible crime.
We talk about bakers whose birthday cakes have not been picked up.
We talk about gestures that seem insignificant, yet have the power to restore to every life all the grace hidden behind the banality of malice and fear.
Seventeen stories by Raymond Carver, the clearest expression of a writing that, with miraculous simplicity, always gets to the heart of things. (quote Einaudi) more
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Dream Theater | DeRank™: 0,00

Okay, for certain things I can agree with you, but anyone who gives one star to the Dream Theater clearly has their eyes and ears stuffed with ham. The early works are masterpieces; you can call them pretentious, redundant, whatever you want, but if any of you played like any member of that band..., you would be the most arrogant and son of a b...... Even I don't like them, but those who fiercely criticize the early albums, I would make you listen to all of Bob Dylan's live performances every night for the rest of your days in a straitjacket, on repeat... Have fun. more
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horrifying cover, record outside my range, but more than decent! more
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Fabrizio De André — Canzoni | DeRank™: 0,00

transition album. By far the De Andrè album I love the least and it still gets a 4! more
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